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    Meetings

    catsmeow1972 replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    ......and this where the paranoia of being followed/watched kicks in. For a while there, in the grocery store, i felt awkward just walking down the beer aisle on my way to the frozen pizzas. And I've...
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    Ethics of the DOA screen

    catsmeow1972 replied to bgxyrnf's topic in Emergency

    A number of years ago I worked in a small town ER where we had quite a lot of "frequent flyers." Sadly there was also a significant amount of drug use. We were located on the Florida pill mill...
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    Meetings

    catsmeow1972 replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I'm an extremely introverted person and always have been. I don't like crowds. I don't like strangers touching me (especially this hugging stuff, ugh), and I'm very uncomfortable with small talk....
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    Rehab Success Rate???

    catsmeow1972 replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Prescisly . So far as these programs go. Appropriate would be DAU. You pee clean. You work. You don't. You're off work until cleared by YOUR (not chosen by program) doc/shrink/addictionologist. If...
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    Rehab Success Rate???

    catsmeow1972 replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Well you've got the APMA and the APA all talking about differentiation in making the idea of substance use disorders ( along with mental health disagnoses) less stigmatizing. Ideally that is all based...
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    Meetings

    catsmeow1972 replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I continue to manually enter the meeting log online as I have always done. One of mine is a non 12 step thing that I searched out and sought approval for and has to be manually entered anyway. I...
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    Watching your social media

    catsmeow1972 replied to TKsprivatenurse's topic in Nurses Recovery

    It's almost like child or sexual abuse accusations. Even if the person is found to be innocent, the accusation is still out there. Except with this stuff nobody is ever found
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    Watching your social media

    catsmeow1972 replied to TKsprivatenurse's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Anyone can look at my social media all they want. All they are gonna see is 5000 pictures and memes of cats. I'm old school. My life is not out in the ether for all to see. Heck i even still write an...
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    disturbing trend of our legislators opinions....

    catsmeow1972 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Just in the last few days i have observed some downright scary opinions from some elected officials in different states that also happen to be medical professionals. In Georgia Representative Betty...
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    Call to action! Nurses in Monitoring Programs

    catsmeow1972 replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I agree that a good first step is to allow initial evaluations by an addiction specialists/psychiatrist of the participants's choice, getting rid of this bit where the program chooses the evaluator....
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    Affinity options

    catsmeow1972 replied to TKsprivatenurse's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yep!! I have a feeling that my program just might be a glad to see me go as i am to see them go. I am rather a thorn in their side with calling them out on crap. They way I see it, if i have to adhere...
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    Meetings

    catsmeow1972 replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I have to go to 3 per week It is an honor system. My Nurse Support group unfortunately does not count as one. I have a Depression/Bipolar Support group (that *I* searched out and found and lobbied...
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    Affinity options

    catsmeow1972 replied to TKsprivatenurse's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Wherever you are working, didn't you have to give your manager a copy of the contract? You should be able to get from either them or
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    Affinity options

    catsmeow1972 replied to TKsprivatenurse's topic in Nurses Recovery

    i have asked more than once exactly what my last day is and i have it marked. i will be watching them like a hawk so nothing strange happens like a mysterious "dilute" or "abnormal" happens in the...
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    I went to work with a black eye

    catsmeow1972 replied to Jessie-'s topic in General Nursing

    It's a reasonable concern for both your safety and the safety of the rest of the staff. Sadly in this day and age there have been too many occasions of SO's showing up at places of employment and...
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    Is a lawyer worth the money

    catsmeow1972 replied to bjlr90's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Rehab is not necessarily a bad thing because the are people (and nurses) that benefit from it. Monitoring is not necessarily a bad thing because there are people (and nurses) that benefit from it....
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    Weekly Support Group Meetings

    catsmeow1972 replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Mine is actually kind of interesting in that it is a Skype type affair. Small, actually mental health focused and admittedly not bad. Doesn't totally suck and I can wear my
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    Breaching StaRN Contract

    catsmeow1972 replied to Bella_CO's topic in First Year After Licensure

    welcome to the world of for profit medicine. Places like this (and yes, HCA is one of the biggest offenders) do this in order to attract newbies who need that first nursing job. They get it and are...
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    Is a lawyer worth the money

    catsmeow1972 replied to bjlr90's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Do you have any idea what made the positive ETG? If you actually did relapse and drank, then yeah they do have the upper hand. If it's something else and like a lab error or contaminated sample or...
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    Florida IPN update

    catsmeow1972 replied to MFTinRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I never had a positive drug screen either (or a history for that matter). I did however, have a positive wallet biopsy AKA they sniffed out the availability of straight up
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    Munchausen on the increase?

    catsmeow1972 replied to MrNurse(x2)'s topic in School

    My cousin unfortunately grew up like this. If his mom spent half the time working an actual job as she did at convincing everyone the kid had problems worthy of an SSI check, they'd have lived quite...
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    How to Acheive Balance?

    catsmeow1972 replied to PixieRN1's topic in Nurses Recovery

    To add insult to this injury, I poured my entire identity into being a nurse. Now IPN's antics have made me ashamed of what my profession can do to others. I feel like my identity of "nurse" is not...
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    How to Acheive Balance?

    catsmeow1972 replied to PixieRN1's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I moan, groan and complain about the intrusiveness of these programs into our daily lives on a regular basis. We've discussed in other threads about how coerced recovery is not recovery at all. So...
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    modification of probation - rule out clause

    catsmeow1972 replied to ericninetwo's topic in Nurses Recovery

    enough
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    Can't handle the ICU

    catsmeow1972 replied to hnwarden's topic in General Nursing

    I was hatched as an RN in the OR. I was a scrub tech that got sponsored through nursing school by the hospital that I worked for. When i graduated i was all puffed up thinking, hey I know surgery,...